Re: Can I vary the system width for 1 system only

[Peter Berlau]

Hi Robin,

many thanks!

II will "heavy use" this solution. :)

all the best,
 Peter


Am 13.11.2015 um 22:34 schrieb Robin Bannister:
> Peter Berlau wrote:
>
> > I found a ugly solution
> > with
> > \stopStaffs % generates 2 invisible staffs
> > s1
> > s1
> > \startStaff
> > for this i have to add on same place in the
> > \chords  also 2
> > s1
> > s1
> > to adjust chords to the remaining bars
>
> In this case you already have a structure amenable to splitting:
>  - 34 bars melody
>  - 2*4 bars coda
> So you could have melody variable and a coda variable,
> and introduce a third variable for the gap;
> eg it would then be easy to omit the gap from midi.
>
>
> But I agree that involving s1 is a depressing sort of hack.
>
>
> See if you like the attached pauseStaffBL hack any better.
> No skips needed - it maltreats bar lines instead.
> The demo does '\pauseStaffBL 40 \break' at the end of measure 9.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Robin